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Partitioning

Definitions: Partitioning

Partitioning

Noun

1. An analysis into mutually exclusive categories.

2. The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Partitioning

DomainDefinitions

Computing

In ULSI, the physical separation/insulation of functional elements obtained through reconfiguration. Source: European Union. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Effective separation of long-lived radionuclides. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Partitioning

Synonyms: breakdown (n), division (n), partition (n), sectionalisation (n), sectionalization (n), segmentation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Partitioning

English words defined with "partitioning": autonomousdivisionpartition, partitionist, Partitionmentsectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation, septation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "partitioning": application layerBSP-treeCaliban, Cell Compartmentation, cellular multiprocessingdepth-first searchequivalence class partitioningfield-programmable gate arrayGastric exclusion Model View Controllerpartitioning methodregular decompositionSoftware Methodology, st-digraph, stratigraphic classificationVirtual Machine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Partitioning

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bioavailability of Metals in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Importance of Partitioning for Bioavailability to Invertebrates, Microbes, and Plants (Metals and the Environmental Series) (reference)

  • Capacity Planning for Logical Partitioning on the IBM Elogo Server Iseries Server (reference)

  • Carbon Partitioning (reference)

  • Guide to Sharing and Partitioning IBM Tape Library Data (reference)

  • High Availability and Scalability With Domino Clustering and Partitioning on Aix (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Partitioning

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Ukraine

Most of the territory was annexed by Poland and Lithuania in the 14th century, but during that time, the Ukrainian people began to conceive of themselves as a distinct people, a feeling which survived subsequent partitioning by greater powers over the next centuries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Partitioning

"Partitioning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 47.73% of the time. "Partitioning" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)47.73%2176,261
Noun (singular)40.91%1882,615
Noun (proper)6.82%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)4.55%2245,945
                    Total100.00%44N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Partitioning

Expression using "partitioning": equivalence class partitioning. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Partitioning

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

partitioning

81

hard drive partitioning

75

partitioning disk

26

partitioning software

23

office partitioning

21

hard disk partitioning

14

partitioning drive

10

ntfs partitioning

10

partitioning window xp

9

linux partitioning

8

partitioning steel

8

office partition partitioning

7

partitioning tool

5

oracle partitioning

4

fdisk partitioning

3

partitioning supplier

3

partitioning steel supplier

3

partitioning xp

3

partitioning program

3

industrial office partitioning

2
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Modern Translations: Partitioning

Language Translations for "partitioning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

подялба (division, partition, sharing). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

分成 (Partitioned). (various references)

   

Danish

  

deling (binary fission, division, fission, pitch, scale division, scale spacing, sharing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

partitioning, partitionering, compartimenteren. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ositus (rounding), osittaminen (partition, rounding, stratification). (various references)

   

French

  

partitionnement (partitionning), partition (part, parting, partition), découpage, cloisonnement (partition, partition assembly). (various references)

   

German

  

Aufteilung (allotment, apportionment, breakdown, differentiation, distribution, division, layout, partition, segmentation, split, stacking allotment, visual), aufteilend (portioning). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κερματισμός, τμηματοποίηση (itemisation, itemization, segmentation), διαμερισματοποίηση (compartmentation), διαχωρισμός (breakout, bribe, burn-through, classification, deflocculation, delamination, demixing, disjunction, dispersion, dissection, fission, grading, halving, migration, oil and fat splitting, partition, precipitation, resolution, segregating, segregation, separation, sorting, splitting). (various references)

   

Italian

  

partizione (division, domain, partition), suddivisione (breakdown, division, partition, scale division, scale spacing, splitting, subdivision), divisione in scomparti. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Dividing, partition, Partly, segmentation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artitioningpay

   

Portuguese

  

divisão (allotment, boundary, compartment, cubicle division, dismiss, division, fissure, fraction, frontier, graduation, head, hedge, hyphen, litharge, melancholia, military division, milking space, milking stall, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, scale, scission, section, separation, severance, sorting, split, stall). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разделять разметка. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

subdivisión (breakdown, subdivision, subsection). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

partitionering, uppdelning (abstract analysis, analysis, decomposition, decomposition of time series, dividing up, division, partition, sectioning). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Partitioning

Derivations

Words ending with "partitioning": repartitioning. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Partitioning"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "partitioning" (pronounced pÄrti"shuning)
7-t i" sh u n i ngpetitioning.
6-i" sh u n i ngauditioning, commissioning, conditioning, decommissioning, positioning, reconditioning, repositioning.
5-sh u n i ngapportioning, auctioning, captioning, cautioning, cushioning, fashioning, freshening, functioning, malfunctioning, mentioning, motioning, rationing, sanctioning, sectioning, stationing, vacationing.
4-u n i ngabandoning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fastening, fattening, flattening, frightening, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, margining, opening, orphaning, pardoning, poisoning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reexamining, reopening, ripening, ruining, saddening, seasoning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening.
3-n i ngabstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Partitioning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-t-t"

-3 letters: arointing, attorning, initiator, intorting, intrigant, nitrating, nitration, partition, pronating, rationing.

-4 letters: antiporn, antiriot, aproning, attiring, ignition, ignitron, ignorant, notating, opiating, painting, patining, pirating, poignant, pointing, printing, rigatoni, rotating, tainting, training.

-5 letters: airting, antipot, atoning, atropin, ignitor, ingrain, intrant, introit, ironing, opining, orating, paining, pairing, panting, parting, patriot, patting, pignora, pintano, pitting, porting, potting, prating, raining, ranting, ratting, rioting, rotting, tarting, tinting, toiting, trining.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: repartitioning.

 

+4 letters: antiprofiteering, nonparticipating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Partitioning


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0072 0074 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506784867586758180758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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